Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontagwas an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
hands way moral
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.
distance suffering way
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
photography way firsts
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
art world way
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
reality past way
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.
photography reality way
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images ...
people television way
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
writing giving way
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
personality half way
A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.
reality ideas way
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
captions depict suffering
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize,
commercial gifted merely naive practiced
Naive or commercial or merely utilitarian photography is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals,
american-author feminine men virile women
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
successful self feelings
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.